Sentences with word «academicism»

Critics hoping to greet some kind of academicism as the new millenium hoped too hard for just that.

This is not a negative judgment of the works in this exhibition, but Painter Painter fell victim to what Greenberg described as academicism: «that particular widespread form of artistic dishonesty which consists in the attempt to escape of the problems of the medium of one art by taking refuge in the effects of another.»

With puzzling abstractions this winter from Brown, James Hyde, and Rebecca Purdum, I could find myself sorting out academicism for a long time to come.

The exaggerated, unambiguous expressivity and the connect - the - dots definitions of character (featuring pat confessions and reheated memories) reflect the closed - off academicism of acting workshops and screenplay pitches rather than the open - ended complexities of life.

You have to wonder, however, if the same will be true at a school like Hyde, where character is understood as a kind of antidote to excessive academicism.

He is, in other words, an academic, and when academicism reaches this pitch of handsomely overbearing blandness, you've got art that's guaranteed not to put a crimp in your day.

A new academicism has gained in popularity among African American artists, to assert pride in themselves, their ancestry, and life on the street.

Yet far from settling into an arid academicism, Shore has used these technological changes to look for the essence of just what photography can record.

I mean, though, another woman who presided over the last century, with her own academicism and anxiety.

Nigerian - born, Berlin - based Otobong Nkanga's early training in the converging traditions of live arts and performance lend a decidedly wayward, playful charge to her research - heavy artistic practice, steering her work away from the dour academicism that so often cripples art projects invested in the production and dissemination of knowledge.

In 1897, when Gustav Klimt and eighteen others withdrew from Vienna's Künstlerhaus to protest the decorative academicism that prevailed there, the Secession, Austria's version of the salon des refusés, was born.

I find his brand of figurative painting closest to late 20thcentury figurative academicism.

In retrospect, it seems I was in an aesthetic ghetto from 1974 until 1979 — 80 — a ghetto of Greenbergian academicism that was ultimately a dead end, although painters like Jules and Larry Poons slipped in under the wire.

The great question now is how to preserve and even honor the age - old stability of painting without falling into the trap of a frozen academicism.

This endurance - based work ethic is not a resurgent academicism but rather evidence of the eternal relevance of the individual hand in art of which drawing is the foundational core.

It's a quality shared with Henri Rousseau, with whom Eilshemius was grouped in Museum Folkwang's recent «In the Shadow of the Avant - Garde»: both were ambivalent about academicism, both somehow avant - garde and vernacular, both candidates for the contested status of «outsider artist».

Such was the work of painter, educator and arts administrator Kuroda Seiki (1866 — 1924), who in works such as Under the Trees combined identifiably Japanese subject matter with an Impressionism - inflected academicism learned in Paris.

While the rational constructions of the Cubists had given modern art perhaps its most impressive and elevated style, by the late twenties much of the generative power of the movement had been lost or supplanted by an abstract academicism.

He stacks what one may remember as nested rectangles, like a kind of Bushwick academicism.

In fact, it's an identical feeling — gratuitous bravura technique, no content; painting about nothing; academicism disguised by flash surface.

Trower comes out of a background in journalism and his writing is refreshingly free of the trammels of academicism.

Many students and faculty members are impatient with an academicism the freedom of which is purchased at the price of sterility and uselessness.

His tradition - consciousness was not a form of academicism.

These shows ask effectively what in the world abstraction might mean and where its boundaries lie today, perhaps beyond the very criticism of its academicism.

Amadou Sanogo's refuses the academicism of art, thus often uses unstretched, repurposed cloth from local markets rather than traditional canvas.

Brown's latest work no doubt deserves the criticism for academicism.

KSWhen I learned this material in grad school what seemed strange to me was, it was a critique of abstraction at a time when so many of the abstract artists of older generations were already completely aware of the problems of academicism and repeatability and style.

a killer mix of self - indulgence and academicism.»

This is the essence of academicism.

Korean Dansaekhwa painting emerged in the 1970s as a reaction to the academicism of the National Art Exhibition and the country's rapidly changing social and political landscape.

The struggle is no longer one of resuscitating the New York School's «heroic» address to blank canvas and all that its emptiness might symbolize, but of painting improvisationally without falling into pastiche, nostalgia or academicism.

In reaction to what he regarded as the academicism of the teaching curriculum he turned to making sculpture out of rubbish, to performance art and to producing photographic works in which he often posed.

They picture a worldly knowing — an academicism, to say the least — and embody a taste — in other words, a class — as forms of content to work with, not to solely depict.

He wrote to Greenberg in 1956, acknowledging that he had set himself the seemingly impossible «task of taking painting out of academicism and all the collective traps laid down for it by the need for security in the name of rationalism, culture, aesthetics and other conventional alibis.

These are all the hallmarks of academicism, and now firmly reside in those more «interesting» and «relevant» forms of artistic expression.

Lance Esplund, in the NYSun suggests that the National Academy can't seem to purge the academicism:» As I have said in the past, the National Academy and its museum, which has recently mounted important shows of Jean HÃ © lion, David Smith, and Louis Michel Eilshemius, are a crucial part of the New York art world.